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The 120-year-old Reicher Synagogue in Lodz, Poland. Credit: Wikipedia.

Pre-World War II synagogue in Poland closed and faces imminent demolition

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A synagogue that served as a Jewish house of worship in the city of Lodz, Poland, before World War II and, in recent years, has once again been used by members of the Jewish...
In the new film “My Name Is Sara,” a 13-year-old Jewish girl, Sara Goralnik, poses as “Manya,” there are some who would like to kill her in the newly released Holocaust film, “My Name Is Sara,” based on a true story. Credit: Courtesy of Strand Releasing.

All eyes upon this 13-year-old

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A young man starts to say the Shema because his father made him promise to do so if the Nazis were to get him. His sister, Sara, covers his mouth, and as the lights of the Nazis...
A monument commemorating the victims of the concentration camp KL Soldau set up by Nazi Germany in Działdowo during World War II, Aug. 19, 2014. Credit: Poeticbent via Wikimedia Commons.

Mass graves of 8,000 Nazi victims from World War II found in Polish forest

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Two mass graves containing the ashes of at least 8,000 Poles killed by the Nazis during World War II were recently discovered in a forest in Poland by archeologists and anthropologists from the Institute...
Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz. Credit: Official Polish Government website.

Poland wants to change how Israel conducts Holocaust-study trips

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The Polish government wants to implement new rules regarding visits by Israeli students to study the Holocaust in the country, including reconsidering the presence of armed Israeli guards. Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz explained...
Young participants in March of the Living at the Auschwitz concentration camp site. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away

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The International March of the Living will take place in Poland on April 28 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Despite the ability to gather in person, organizers say they now face a...
Jewish men, women and children march with bundles down the main thoroughfare in Krakow, Poland, during the liquidation of the Krakow Ghetto by Nazi German soldiers, March 1943. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowejvia via Wikimedia Commons.

Mimi Reinhard, who typed out Schindler’s list, dies at 107

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Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jewish men, women and children to be saved from death by Nazi Germany, died in Israel on Friday at the...
Przemyśl, Poland. Credit: Ferdziu via Wikimedia Commons.

Ukraine war refugees and aid workers to celebrate Passover seder in Poland

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Dozens of refugees from the Ukraine war, along with aid workers, have been invited to attend a multifaith Passover seder dinner for some 200 people on April 12 in Przemyśl, in southeastern Poland, to...
Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Lublin, Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Former largest yeshivah in world becomes refugee camp in Poland for Ukrainian Jews

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A yeshivah in Poland that was once the largest in the world has been converted into a refugee camp for Ukrainian Jews fleeing their home county as Russia’s war continues. Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva operated in...
Jaroslaw Nowak. Source: Screenshot.

Polish diplomat fired after calling country’s Holocaust speech law ‘stupid’

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A Polish diplomat has reportedly been fired after calling his own government’s laws regarding speech centered around the Holocaust “stupid.” Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish Diaspora, made the comments in an...
Polish President Andrzej Duda. Credit: Grabowski Foto/Shutterstock.

Israeli envoy to return to Poland after several months, cites contact from Warsaw

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Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday it would return the country’s chargé d’affaires to Poland following “signals” from Warsaw that it was seeking reconciliation. Tal Ben-Ari Yaalon was recalled by the ministry in August for...